Agent skill · research science · mvanhorn
pp-scientific-consensus
Aggregate PubMed, OpenAlex, Crossref, and Europe PMC into evidence summaries, consensus scores Trigger phrases: `what does the evidence say about`, `scientific consensus on`, `is there consensus that`, `evidence pyramid for`, `research gaps in`, `compare the evidence for`, `use scientific-consensus`, `run scientific-consensus`.
Why this skill is useful
Adds executable commands for evidence synthesis and consensus scoring that are not available in public knowledge.
What it needs
Requires scientific-consensus-pp-cli installed locally. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-06. 1,890 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Scientific Consensus — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the scientific-consensus-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: 1. Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows: 2. Verify: scientific-consensus-pp-cli --version 3. Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill. If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer). This installs into $GOPATH/bin (default $HOME/go/bin), so add that directory to $PATH instead: If --version reports "command not found" after install, the runtime cannot see the binary directory on $PATH. Do not proceed with skill commands until verification succeeds. Scientific Consensus turns large collections of papers into actionable evidence. It scores consensus across sources (consensus), classifies studies by design and renders evidence pyramids (evidence), detects gaps and controversies, and persists everything to a local SQLite store you can query offline with --json. Fully keyless; optional AI keys upgrade summarization. When to Use This CLI Use Scientific Consensus when an agent or researcher needs to know what the evidence says about a claim, not just find papers. It is the right tool for evidence synthesis, consensus scoring, study-design classification, gap/controversy detection, and topic monitoring across biomedical and general scientific literature. It excels when offline persistence and agent-native JSON matter. Anti-triggers Do not use this CLI for: Do not use for retrieving the full text PDF of a specific paper (use the publisher or Europe PMC full-text directly). Do not use for non-scholarly web search or news. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills mvanhorn/pp-scientific-consensus--611c32